Texts and commentaries

Catechetical Lectures

Cyril of Jerusalem

Urges hearers to distinguish Christ's return from a false claimant; includes expected signs and judgment.

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Meeting the Lord in the clouds · commentary →

“Now is the falling away” · commentary →

Cyril expects the heavens to be renewed · commentary →

Cyril expects the heavens to be renewed · commentary →

The Roman kings and Antichrist · commentary →

The Roman kings and Antichrist · commentary →

Wars, divided churches, and signs Cyril saw in his own day · commentary →

Which temple does Cyril mean? · commentary →

Which temple does Cyril mean? · commentary →

Three and a half years of tribulation · commentary →

Three and a half years of tribulation · commentary →

Three and a half years of tribulation · commentary →

Christ’s return will be visible · commentary →

Meeting the Judge through works of mercy · commentary →

Meeting the Judge through works of mercy · commentary →

Does “until” put an end to Christ’s kingdom? · commentary →

Does “until” put an end to Christ’s kingdom? · commentary →

The cross as the sign in heaven · commentary →

The poor and servants are not overlooked · commentary →

Cyril reads the aging poem as a vision of the end · commentary →

Cyril reads the aging poem as a vision of the end · commentary →

Cyril reads the aging poem as a vision of the end · commentary →

Two advents of Christ · commentary →

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Catholic Church

Defines final trial and Antichrist deception and rejects identifying final messianic hope with historical political ascendancy.

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The Catechism on Christ’s reign and the final trial · commentary →

The Catechism on Christ’s reign and the final trial · commentary →

Change the Future for Humanity

Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari (Chariji); Shri Ram Chandra Mission

Interprets Whispers messages as warning of destruction before renewed humanity while asking practitioners to mitigate or prevent calamity. Supports analysis of conditionality and human agency alongside 2011 inevitability language.

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Changes Made to Bahaullah and the New Era Regarding the Explanation of Daniel 12:12

Universal House of Justice, Research Department

Answers Beckwith's false prophecy and concealment allegations by distinguishing Esslemont's calculations and reported table talk from authenticated tablets. Cites a 1946 revision note preceding 1957, while defending later replacement of the passage.

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The Research Department’s response to the 1957 dispute · commentary →

Charges against Joanna Southcott, Her Twelve Judges, the Jury and Four and Twenty Elders

Anonymous critic; title advertises I. Hann’s separate book

Argues that the trial lacked an adverse party and that its supporters had already decided the mission’s truth. The criticism is a contemporary polemical response.

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Chen Tao in Texas: A New Religious Movement, its Host Community, and Mass-Mediated Adaptation

Ryan J. Cook

Examines the failed March 1998 television and visible divine appearance predictions and subsequent changes in practice. Distinguishes abandoning a prediction from abandoning religious identity.

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Chiliastic Ideology and Nativist Rebellion in the Early Abbasid Period: Sunbadh and Jamasp-nama

Sean W. Anthony

Proposes that part of Jamasp-nama preserves Sunbadh's755 rebellion ideology or a close descendant. Distinguishes historical reports of Abu Muslim's survival from later polemical embellishment and competing heroic identifications.

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Chizkuni

Hezekiah ben Manoah

The comments identify David as the coming ruler and explain the oracle’s delayed timing, poetic repetitions and conquest language.

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Choosing the Best Way of Life

Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; unsigned institutional article

Acknowledges that published probability language overshadowed cautions about 1975 and helped build expectation. Clarifies that an earlier call to adjust mistaken expectations includes persons involved in publication, not only readers.

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The Watchtower regrets statements that raised 1975 hopes · commentary →

Bahá’í

Christ, Return of (Warwick Leaflet)

Warwick Bahai Bookshop

This Warwick Bahá’í Bookshop leaflet explains its identification of the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh with biblical promises of Christ’s return.

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Christ’s Presence—What Does It Mean to You?

Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; unsigned institutional article

Explicitly replaces the prior unbelieving contemporaries interpretation with anointed disciples as the generation recognizing the sign. Distinguishes invisible presence from future destruction and suggests surviving anointed believers will witness the start of great tribulation.

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Chronicle of Salimbene of Parma

Salimbene of Parma; G. G. Coulton, translator

The chronicle of the Franciscan Salimbene of Parma, written in the 1280s. It records the Joachite expectations of his youth, the Flagellants of 1260 and his later rejection of Joachite dating.

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Gerard of Borgo San Donnino: the Gospel superseded in 1260 · commentary →

Salimbene gives up Joachism after 1260 · commentary →

Chronologia sive libellus de mundi duratione

Quintus Julius Hilarianus

A short Latin chronology written in 397 by the North African bishop Quintus Julius Hilarianus. It counts six thousand years for the world and reckons that 101 of them remained from the consulship of Caesarius and Atticus.

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Latter-day Saint — Church of Jesus Christ (Monongahela)

Church Beliefs

The Church of Jesus Christ

Official beliefs of The Church of Jesus Christ headquartered in Monongahela.

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A peaceful reign before Christ’s return · commentary →

Church Mission and Peacemaking

Assemblies of God USA, General Presbytery

Places full peace after Christ’s return and the millennium while insisting that expected end-time turmoil does not excuse abandoning present peacemaking. Links Isaiah’s peace images with Revelation’s renewed creation.

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Church Universal and Triumphant and The Summit Lighthouse

Erin Prophet

Distinguishes the 1987–1990 shelter episode, escalating preparedness deadlines, and an avertive prayer component. Documents the Prophets' identification as Revelation's Two Witnesses.

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Circular Letter on the Writings and Activities of Vassula Ryden

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; William Levada

Maintains the earlier doctrinal judgment while acknowledging clarifications and calling for case-specific prudence; distinguishes later reception from the original notification.

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Clarke's Commentary

Adam Clarke

Applies the darkened heavenly bodies to Jerusalem's downfall, citing Lightfoot and parallels in Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and Joel.

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Clarke: “generation” and the preservation of the Jewish people · commentary →

Clarke separates the disciples’ questions · commentary →

Clementine Homilies

Anonymous; attributed to Clement

The narrative places Antichrist before the public appearance of Jesus as Christ in a sequence of opposing figures.

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Collected Teachings of Hōnen in Kurodani

Teachings attributed to Hōnen; collected by Ryōe Dōkō

Argues that promised access to Pure Land practice after the disappearance of the Three Jewels implies its availability to people in the author’s present age.

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Coming Judgement of the Secrets of Man

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon connects the disclosure of hidden wrongdoing with Christ’s future judgment, preaching on Romans 2:16.

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Coming Wonders Expected between 1867 and 1875

M. Baxter

Michael Baxter’s prophetic timetable of the seals, trumpets and vials of Revelation, published in London in 1866–1867. It placed Christ’s descent at Armageddon in 1873–1875.

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Baxter: Christ’s descent at Armageddon in 1873–5 · commentary →

Baxter on Gill: the 1260 years from 610 or 612 end in 1870 or 1872 · commentary →

Commentary of the Old and New Testaments

Joseph Benson

Interprets the celestial imagery and coming of the Son of Man through Jerusalem's destruction and the collapse of its religious and civil order.

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Benson: the signs describe Jerusalem’s destruction · commentary →

Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke

John Calvin

Reads the passage as the kingdom’s full manifestation after the Church’s tribulations, rejecting restriction of those tribulations to Jerusalem.

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Calvin places the signs after the Church’s trials · commentary →